[ibudiallo]

Ah, this one couldn't find my face. It kept focusing on my left ear and gave it a 5 for attractiveness. Then it couldn't find my face any longer. There was another fun one posted here months ago [1].

I wanna say I'm disappointed, but I'd be lying. I'm happy that A.I. cannot detect us black people. I'll need to do something about that left ear though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337863

[moksly]

The only person I know who did something about his left ear, did admirable. Just don’t wrap the ear in a newspaper and hand it to a prostitute, as I doubt that sort of thing will work out well in these modern times.

[Twisol]

Before googling: Is this a van Gogh reference?

After googling: Yep, that's a van Gogh reference.

https://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/van-goghs-ear.html

> Vincent took the ear and wrapped it in newspaper. With a hat pulled down over his wound, he, with ear in hand, left the house to go to a “maison de tolerance”, a brothel close to the house. There he asked for a girl named Rachel who he gave the ear to saying “Guard this object carefully.”

[dirtnugget]

Whatever drugs he was taking, I want them

[coldtea]

It was just that he had forgotten that she had invited him, and it was a Sunday and all the gift shops were closed...

[augusto-moura]

Of course, that makes it totally acceptable now haha

[jakeva]

I don't think it worked out well in his times either

[web007]

It's okay, the wall in front of me scored 6.4, was a 14 year old male with a BMI of 36.1, and had a happy reaction to a dog.

[stolenmerch]

I'm not black, but have a beard and I got the same results as you. I want to say maybe this algorithm needs some work.

[throwaway0a5e]

Burkas, beards and sunglasses are the natural predators of facial recognition algorithms.

[amelius]

I think the crowd sourced "am I hot or not" did a better job.

[kristopolous]

Maybe someone can enlighten me. I first heard about this problem 10 years ago. I'm sure it's been known far longer.

Is there some extremely difficult algorithmic problem preventing these systems from working on people with darker skin?

I had presumed it was a long corrected oversight but it still appears to be a problem.

[magic_beans]

Even photographic cameras have difficulty with exposure for dark skin. This is a problem as old as photography.

[kristopolous]

So the deltas are narrower creating a breakdown in the SNR for say edge detection?

Please excuse me if this is totally wrong and I sound ignorant, I assure you I am...

[INTPenis]

I have a big beard and thick black framed glasses, often image recognition can't find my face either. And I'm also happy about it. :)

I'm extremely nearsighted so through the glasses my face looks smaller than it actually is. The outlines of my face are shifted.

Whenever my gfs daughter wanted to play with snapchat and me I had to take off the glasses for it to work.

[justinlloyd]

TL/DR; it's a off-hand joke.

Cannot decide if I should respond with a meme reference to Samual L. Jackson asking "Does he look like a *?" or ask "Do you also cook? Do you have a deep voice? Are we only used to seeing your torso and your hands? Do you have a popular YouTube show?"

But frankly, that's interesting the accommodation you have to make for an algorithm to play with your daughter. I wonder what other accommodations people make in life because of algorithms.

[smusamashah]

It started with 5, then I kept getting closer to the camera until it was at 7.5 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Izkata]

I started with 5, and got up to 6 by angling my head down and to the right and raising my left eyebrow.

[noetokyo]

Its probably focusing on a single part of your skin.

[FerretFred]

Hmmm.. this is not a new thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d16LNHIEJzs

[koliber]

According to this AI I am about as attractive as your ear.

[taneq]

I kinda wanna see your ear now.